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AG’s report was ‘opportunity to brag’ about projects: ISED

News | 03/27/2019 6:08 pm EDT
The late auditor general Michael Ferguson, seen here in May 29, 2018, released a report critical of ISED last fall./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

GATINEAU, Que. — Innovation Canada did not take a critical report of its progress on connecting rural and remote Canadians too poorly, instead using it to “do some education” to highlight all its successes, the department’s director general of spectrum policy said on Wednesday.

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